http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/
Or something else entirely.
Regarding Drawbridge, as you pointed out it is an internal research project that we have been innovating on, and that has helped us gain valuable experience with containers. Much of what we announced today was born from the experience that we had with Drawbridge and we are excited to bring container technologies to Windows Server and the Docker ecosystem along with Linux. We think the combination of our own hypervisor for container virtualization and Docker containers for creating a unified deployment and management experience is a compelling scenario for our customers.
Our dev process is quite nice, we have fully automated builds and deployments which are feature branch aware, allowing us to run several features side by side.
On the ops side however, most of the work is done either manually or the scripts are unreliable (again, external company nothing much we can do about it). Setting up new environments can take months. Many times we want to introduce new services but the time it would take to get our infrastructure updated usually outweighs any benefits.
Being able to ship configured containers as smoothly as we can ship code would be nothing short of revolutionary!